Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Alex Lieberman

Co-founded the business newsletter Morning Brew and left it in 2024 after its sale; since then his startup studio has incubated StoryArb, GrowthPair, Tenex and Distro.

TenexMorning Brew

13 books they recommend · 28 appearances

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7 Powers7 Powers
T1 7 Powers
Hamilton Helmer · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Seven sources of lasting advantage, each a benefit plus a barrier to rivals.

Also recommended by: Brett Adcock, Daniel Ek, Guy Spier and 5 others

No Rules RulesNo Rules Rules
T2 No Rules Rules
Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Netflix built talent density and candour so it could remove controls.

Also recommended by: Matt Mullenweg, Ben Horowitz, Guy Spier and 1 other

The E-Myth RevisitedThe E-Myth Revisited
T2 The E-Myth Revisited
Michael E. Gerber · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

Small firms fail when technicians run them; build systems that run the business.

Also recommended by: Ali Abdaal, Andrew Wilkinson, Derek Sivers and 5 others

TractionTraction
T3 Traction
Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Alexis Ohanian, Ali Abdaal and 6 others

Give and TakeGive and Take
T2 Give and Take
Adam Grant · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Givers, takers and matchers, and why givers end up both at the bottom and the top.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Michael Mauboussin and 3 others

RangeRange
T2 Range
David Epstein · 2019
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Early specialisation works only where rules are stable; elsewhere breadth wins.

Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Abi Tyas Tunggal, Ana Fabrega and 10 others

WillWill
T4 Will
Will Smith, Mark Manson · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Dustin Moskovitz

Ender's GameEnder's Game
T4 Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card · 1985
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel of a gifted boy trained in an orbiting school for war against aliens.

Also recommended by: Eric Jorgenson, Ev Williams, Mark Zuckerberg and 3 others

The Bitcoin StandardThe Bitcoin Standard
T2 The Bitcoin Standard
Saifedean Ammous · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Sound money must hold value over time, and Bitcoin's fixed supply makes it such.

Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Raoul Pal

The 15 Commitments of Conscious LeadershipThe 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
T4 The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
Jim Dethmer · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Fifteen commitments for leading from curiosity instead of defensiveness.

Also recommended by: Austin Rief, Brian Armstrong, Drew Houston and 2 others

The Daily StoicThe Daily Stoic
T3 The Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday · 2016
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Also recommended by: Matej Latin

The Sovereign IndividualThe Sovereign Individual
T3 The Sovereign Individual
James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg · 1997
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1997 forecast of digital money weakening the nation state

Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Nat Eliason and 10 others

Digital MinimalismDigital Minimalism
T4 Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport · 2019
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Also recommended by: Cal Newport, Nat Eliason